Biography

About Joshua

Joshua Phillips has been actively advocating against sexual violence since 2003 when he joined Sexual Aggression Peer Advocates at Central Michigan University. Since then he has had the privilege of presenting countless programs on his campus and throughout the United States.

Because he situates sexual violence as a cultural issue, his education philosophy is that we must be actively against sexual violence instead of passively for it.

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The Book

1,800 Miles:Striving to End Sexual Violence One Step at a Time

Sexual violence is a cultural issue that affects millions of people and the violence will not stop if we continually choose to collectively ignore it. Three college friends understood this concept and decided to do something more proactive. So with few resources and minimal funding, they headed to Miami in the summer of 2008 to begin a walk that would take them all the way to Boston in an effort to raise awareness about sexual violence.

I have a new essay published in Partners in Social Change. It is a publication on behalf of Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs. It begins on page 4. I outline how the media is currently bias in the coverage of Mike Tyson and his rape conviction. In short, only Mike Tyson gets to go on TV and tell his side of the story while Desiree Washington’s version of events is completely absent. Check it out, here.

TCU suspends football player for punching his girlfriend and pulling a gun on her. While the investigation is still on-going and the player has not been found guilty, TCU made the decision to be proactive and make a statement about not tolerating violence against women.